Word: lead
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first race, M. L. Bernstein started for the Harvard Freshmen and gained about four yards on Dudley of Yale. P. L. Fish increased the lead to fifteen ya. ds but fell on the last turn and was passed by Richardson, who gained a lead which the succeding Harvard men were unable to overcome...
...Grant M. S., and Wilson, U. of P., were the first runners in the 'varsity race. Though Wilson led for the first five laps, Grant succeeded in finishing seven yards ahead. Mechling, however, soon overtook Alexander '99, and from this time on U. of P. increased their lead...
...Copeland's reading last night in observance of Lincoln's Birthday was highly successful, and should certainly lead to the annual celebration of the occasion at the University. The hall was crowded and the interest was intense...
...know that the University has ever attempted to honor the great president, but it is a custom well worth beginning. Lincoln was not a college graduate. Modern education can not claim him as its product. But it is nevertheless most fitting that the colleges should lead in the movement to show respect for him, because he possessed almost as natural traits many of the finest mental and moral qualities which America is nowadays trying to develop by means of her educational institutions...
...race between the second 'Varsity and Bowdoin, E. J. Green 1L., captain of the Harvard team, was unable to gain over Stanwood until almost the close of the first relay, when he spurted and secured a lead of two yards, which A. W. Blakemore 1L. increased to ten yards over Snow. E. D. Fullerton '98 easily held his own against Gregson, and when S. P. Goddard 1900 started the last relay against Kendall he had a lead of fifteen yards which he held to the finish. Harvard's time...